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March 27, 2011 at 7:58am
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To Follow by Faith Alone… →

My friend Matt recently posted an interesting essay entitled The Mathematics of an Idea. He opens with a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

If I may be so bold as to question one of the Founding Fathers, I think Mr. Franklin misunderstood the nature of faith. Faith is not a feeling, nor is it divorced from reason. Faith is an